Force a while loop to stop after a set number of iterarions?

I have set a loop that only stops when a certain condition is achieved, taking into account variables from another script. Please keep in mind that this loop is several hundreds of lines long.

 while not(Condition)

 Loop

 end

However, not all situations will result in the condition being achieved. It will just loop ad infinitum.

Due to this, I'm trying to set a rule where if the condition is not achieved after 5000 iterations of the loop, the loop is forced to stop. How could I set this?

Thank you in advance for all help.

[Miriam]

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/63052-if-i-want-to-stop-infinite-while-loop-after-30-iteration-so-how-can-i-use-it-in-my-matlab-code

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

counter = 0;
maxiterations = 5000;
while ~condition && counter < maxiterations
  counter = counter + 1;
  %... rest of code
end

[jscco41]

Thanks! It works!